Jazz Articles about Thievery Corporation

Eric Hilton: from Thievery Corporation to Corazón Kintsugi

by Lawrence Peryer
December 2, 2023

Today, the Spotlight shines on downtempo electronic music godfather and Thievery Corporation co-founder Eric Hilton. Eric joined us a few weeks after the September release of Corazón Kintsugi (Montserrat House), his album with longtime Thievery vocal collaborator Natalia Clavier. Eric produced, arranged, and played the majority of the instruments on the 9-track album, which fuses elements of dub, trip-hop, Bossa nova, vintage film music, and electronica with Natalia's emotive Spanish and Portuguese vocals. We ...

Rob Garza: Being Open-minded

by Nenad Georgievski
October 13, 2013

DJ and producer Rob Garza has been known as one half of the kaleidoscopic duo Thievery Corporation, along with Eric Hilton. Earlier this year Garza released a collection of 14 remixes that he has done for artists such as Gogol Bordello, Tycho and Miguel Migs. Remixes is a crisscross concoction that merges beats, ambient waves, low --fi, psychedelic, deep house into an intriguing whole. On the other front, regarding Thievery Corporation, the band has been touring sporadically and has just ...

Thievery Corporation: Radio Retaliation

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 20, 2008

Della prima, travolgente, onda di artisti che ha ridefinito i confini di una globalizzazione sonora downtempo e cool [tra loro certamente gli indimenticabili Kruder&Dorfmeister], gli americani Thievery Corporation sono stati quelli al tempo stesso più coraggiosi e più discontinui, in un continuo [dis]equilibrio tra tensioni centrifughe, tentazioni mainstream-chic, virtù private e pubblici vizi, alternando raccolte di qualità altissima a altri lavori di materiale a proprio nome non sempre riusciti. Dalla confezione già apertamente “rebelde", questo nuovo Radio Retaliation si presenta ...

Thievery Corporation: Versions

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 16, 2006

Thievery Corporation Versions Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (2006) Valutazione: 3,5 stelle Che i Thievery Corporation funzionino meglio quando mettono mano al lavoro altrui è una di quelle verità che si dicono un po' a mezza bocca per non sembrare banali, ma che alla fine sembrano abbastanza evidenti. Senza raggiungere le vette del loro celebrato Dj Kicks, anche in anni più recenti le loro scelte per The Outernational Sound erano sembrate ancora fresche e felici. Ecco quindi che questo nuovo Versions ...

Thievery Corporation: The Outernational Sound

by AAJ Staff
July 2, 2004

In the ideal world, a collection of mixed tracks on disc should resemble something a DJ would put together on air or at a party. It needs flow, it needs balance, and it needs variety. Having spent time doing radio, I can speak for the importance of the big picture when assembling material from diverse sources.

The Outernational Sound comes in the form of a twenty-track set representing nineteen artists. It's been officially dubbed a DJ set by ...